Car construction.



A. F. OLD.

CAR CONSTRUCTION. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3, 1912.

1,095 34=8 Patented May 5, 1914.

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EIIT S AUSBORN F. oLD, or MQNTCLAI'R, NEW JERSEY; AssrGNoE'ro HALE AND KIL UE-N' CoMrANY, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION or DELAWARE.

CAE. CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 5, ieie.

Application filed June 3, 1912. Serial No. 701,136.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AUsBoRN F. OLD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hontclair, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car Construction, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the construction of railway passenger cars and has reference more particularly to the construction and arrangement of the seating employed in such cars.

The invention is directed to the provision of an improved construction to be employed in railway cars at the wall ends of the transverse seats whereby the structure is simplified, the cost of manufacture materially decreased and the weight of car greatly reduced.

In the construction of railway cars heretofore, the common practice has been to pro vide a plurality of posts rising from the floor and supporting the side walls and the roof. An outer sheathing and an inner sheathing are then applied to these posts, these sheathings serving the double purpose of bracing the posts one on another and completing the wall of the car. \Vhen seats are to be installed in such a car arranged transversely in pairs as is usual, a wall-plate is secured to the side-wall of the car at the wall end of each seat and the seat mechanism at that end of the seat is secured to the wall-plate, the mechanism being supported at the aisle end by a suitable pedestal. This construction may be greatly simplified with a resultant saving in the weight of the car and the cost of manufacture thereof. In

many instances, the inner sheathing of the wall of a railway car is not necessary in order that the interior of the car will be suflicient-ly warm, as in cars for use in warm. or moderate climates or in tunnels, and this sheathing may be dispensed with if other means is provided for bracing the posts of the side-wall. Furthermore, by dispensing with the inner sheathing, slightly greater space within the car is available, so that the seats can be made longer or the aisle may be made wider. The present invention involves a structure of this character wherein the side-wall of the car consists of the parallel vertical posts and a sheathing applied to the outer sides of the posts. In combination with such a structure, I provide a plate which serves the double purpose of bracing onepost on another and supporting the wall end of the seat. This plate, preferably made of sheet-metal and flanged at its edges to give it greater strength, extends horizontally from one post to another and is secured to the posts so that it forms a strong brace for the posts; additionally, the plate is so formed as to receive and support the. parts of the seat, as by having the ends of the connecting-rails and the rocker-rod secured thereto; Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating a modification of the construction shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is an elevation of the combined brace and seat-end; Figs. 4t and 5 are cross-sections of the seat-end on lines H and 55 of Fig. 3; and Fig. 6 is a diagrammatic view showing the arrangement of the parts of the seat.

Referring to these drawings, Fig. 1 shows the sidewall of a car including a plurality of parallel vertical posts rising from the floor of the car and supporting the side-wall and roof, and a sheathing secured to these posts. The posts are indicated by the reference 7 in Fig. l and are shown as formed from sheet-metal strips bent to the desired shape so as to form a hollow post and to bring the edges of the strips together for welding or riveting. The sheathing is shown at 8 and consists of sheet-metal plates extending from one. post to the next. A butt-strap 9 overlies the joint between adjacent plates 8. The plates 8 are applied 7 vto the outer sides of the posts 7 and form a continuous sheathing. No inner sheathing is employed additional to'the outer one and secured to the inner sides of the posts 7 A plate 10 is provided extending between adjacent posts 7 and constituting both a brace for the post-s and an end-plate for a seat. Such a plate is shown in Fig. 3. Preferably it is a rectangular piece of sheet metal and is flanged at its upper and lower edges to give it greater strength. At its ends it is secured to the posts in any suitable manner, as by means of rivets or screws. In Fig. 1 the plate is secured to the posts by rivets 11 and the rivets employed for this purpose are the same ones which are utilized to secure the sheathing 8 and the butt-strap 9 to the posts. This'plate is secured to the posts 7 a short distance above the floor of the car and serves to brace one post on another so that the side-wall of the car is made very strong and rigid notwithstanding the absence of an inner sheathing. Also, the plate 10 has formed therein or secured thereon the elements necessary for the proper support of the seat structure at the wall end of the seat.

In Fig. 2, wooden posts 12 are shown instead of metallic ones and the sheathing 13 is also of wood. Here again there is no inner sheathing but the plate 10 extends between and is secured to posts 12 so as to brace them and at the same time form a seat-end for the seat. In Fig. 2,'the plate 10 is shown as bent slightly near'its ends so that the body of the plate lies closer to the outer sheathing than the ends. By so forming theplate 10, the seat may be made slightly longer, or with seats of the same size, the aisle space will be wider. In Fig. 1, the plate 10 is oppositely bent.

The construction of the plate 10 whereby it is made to serve as a seat-end may be varied to suit the type of seatit is desired to employ. I have shown a seat of the type having a track 14 on the seat-end on which the lower end of a back-supporting arm 15 moves to reverse the facing direction of the seat and properly adjust the inclination of the back. Also, connecting-rails 16 are shown secured at their ends to the seat-end and supporting the rockers 17 of the seat-cushion 18. The track 14 may consist of a piece of sheetmetal of the shape shown having its edges turned up to confine the rollers or studs 19 on the arm 15; it may be secured to the plate 10 by welding it thereto. A bearingplate 2 1 is also secured to plate 10 to receive the end of the rocking-rod 20 extending lengthwise of the seat. This rod has arms 21 thereon connected by pin-and-slot connections to the arms 15 at one end and to the rockers 17 at the other. These rockers are supported by and slide on the rails 16 and each rail. is secured at its end to the plate 10. In Figs. 3 and a, nut-pockets 22 are shown secured by welding to the plate 10. Each pocket is adapted to receive a nut which is engaged by the end of a bolt coacting with an end-piece secured to the end of the connecting-rail. Instead of using such nut-pockets, however, the bolts for securing the rails to the seat-end may pass through openings in the seat end and coact with nuts located on the opposite side of the seat-end. It will be seen that by the construction abovedescribed the wall end of the seat is supported by the plate 10 whose ends are secured to adjacent posts 7 in the side-wall of the car, that no inner sheathing is employed so that greater space is provided within the car, and that the plates 10 brace the posts 7 one on another just as the inner sheathing would if such sheathing were employed.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows 1. In a car, a plurality of parallel vertical posts, a sheathing secured to the outer sides of the posts, plates extending between and secured at their ends to adjacent posts to brace the posts one on another, and seats disposed transversely of the car and each having one end thereof supported by one of said plates, substantially as set forth.

2. In a car,ra plurality of parallel vertical posts, a sheathing secured to the outer sides of the posts, sheet-metal plates extending between and secured at their ends to adjacent posts to brace the posts one on another, connecting-rails secured at their ends to said plates and arranged to support seat-cushions, and means on said plates for supporting reversible back-cushions, substantially as set forth.

3. In a car, a plurality of parallel vertical posts, a sheathing secured to the outer sides of the posts, sheetmetal plates extending between and secured at their ends to adja cent posts to brace the posts one on another, said plates being bent adjacent to their ends so that their central portions are out of alinement with their end portions, and a plurality of seats arranged transversely of the car and having movable seat and back cushions, each of said seats being supported at one end by one of said plates, substantially as set forth.

1. A car having a side-wall comprising two parallel vertical posts, a sheathing secured to the outer sides thereof, a sheetmetal plate flanged at its edges and extending between and secured at its ends to said posts, a track for guiding a back-supporting arm secured to said plate, and means on said plate for supporting the end of a rocker-rod, substantially as set forth.

5. A car having a sidewall comprising two parallel vertical posts, a sheathing secured to the outer side thereof, a sheet-metal plate extending between and secured at its ends to said posts, connecting-rails secured at their ends to said plates, a seat-cushion supported by said rails, a track on said plate, a back-supporting arm supported and guided'by said track, and means on said plate for receiving the end of a rocker-rod, substantially as set forth.

6. A car having a side-Wall comprising supported and guided by said track, and

tWo parallel vertical posts, a sheathing semeans on said plate for receiving the end of cured to the outer side thereof, a sheet-metal a rocker-rod, substantially as set forth. plate extendnig between and secured at its This specification signed and witnessed I 5 ends to said posts, said plate being bent adthis 28th day of May, 1912.

jacent to its ends so that its central portion is out of alinement With its end portions, AUSBORN connecting-rails secured at their ends to said Witnesses: plate, a seat-cushion supported by said rails, THOMAS F. Roms, 10 a track on said plate, a back-supporting arm WM. J. EARNSHAW.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,095,348, granted May 5, 19M,

upon the application of Ausborn F. Old, of Montclair, New Jersey, for an improvement in Car Construction, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 2, line 125, for the word plates read plate; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Ofiice.

Signed and sealed this 26th day of May, A. D., 1914.

[SEAL] R. F. WHITEHEAD,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

